His father named him after the legendary Cuban revolutionary, Castro. But when Fidel came into this world in 1973, the baby who would grow into a towering hunk would never have guessed the demands that come with being an Odinga.
Scion of a family that has defined protest and opposition politics since the 1950s, he seems to have lived in the shadows of his illustrious forbearers; grandson of a Vice President, son of a Prime Minister; Ida's boy, the strong matriarch who held the family together throughout most of the family's troubled history.